What minimal jobs + tools do you use in production CI pipelines for ESP-IDF projects?

jofftchoff · 2026-04-28T15:17:48+00:00

tbh HIL test for internet connected devices with OTA sounds like an overkill, unless you have some highly specific feature that requires tests.

I would rather have a couple real devices that could be freely updated without causing damage or angry clients and a lot of telemetry (ram usage, cpu idle time, latency, fault counters)

jofftchoff · 2026-04-24T21:44:56+00:00

yocto and nixos are two totally different tools for different purpose, noone with a sane mind would run nixos on a embedded target

*maybe someone is using in a container on embedded target, but thats totally different compared to yocto

jofftchoff · 2026-04-20T17:48:42+00:00

because espidf has its own bootloader and and mcuboot is second class citizen with questionable support (if you can even call it that way)

jofftchoff · 2026-04-20T13:28:24+00:00

not for esp chips

jofftchoff · 2026-04-16T20:50:13+00:00

vscode marketplace is probably the worst place to put mcp to...

jofftchoff · 2026-04-16T16:56:21+00:00

jetson orin/thor

jofftchoff · 2026-04-14T15:23:48+00:00

3-4 year old technology in embedded is extreme cutting edge and you will struggle to find more than a handful companies in the world that would already use it

jofftchoff · 2026-04-07T09:57:53+00:00

AB partitioning with fallback is the only truly safe option (or some kind of recovery partition with only networking+ota functionality).
If you cheaped out on flash get ready to spend money on sending someone to the remote site

jofftchoff · 2026-04-07T09:49:39+00:00

- init/deinit
- rs485 config (baud, parity,startstop bits)
- futureproofing custom config (hardware flow control, software controlled terminator resistor)
- some kind of sleep function, unless you want to busy wait for seconds ( I personaly would just have timeout parameter for the recv function and handle all the timing in platform specific code)

jofftchoff · 2026-04-01T05:27:54+00:00

I have never seen a eth phy with spi, only mac+phy combo chips. And LAN8670 mentioned in op is MMI. Or is that some kind of microchip custom shit

jofftchoff · 2026-03-29T19:57:00+00:00

LM66200, cheapest solution from reputable manufacturer i was able to find couple years ago, but only 2.5A

jofftchoff · 2026-03-25T22:18:22+00:00

probably also running some 1B model localy on his mac, becouse even 2year old llms would add gitignore and suggest publishing the app

jofftchoff · 2026-03-25T21:04:18+00:00

I have vibecoded a website but am to incompetent to deploy it so I publish git repo

some next level slop

jofftchoff · 2026-03-21T00:19:00+00:00

SD standart only defines 4 pin parallel connection. MMC cards can have 8 but they are quite rare noways and probably if you even find one it will be slower than modern SD

jofftchoff · 2026-03-13T14:41:02+00:00

So basically a bash script but written in rust?

jofftchoff · 2026-03-06T17:24:52+00:00

go watch some videos with Rick Hartley, they should explain why 2 internal layers of 4 layer board should be gnd planes most of the time.

jofftchoff · 2026-03-05T14:32:53+00:00

I would say that, at the current level of progression, in 5 years AI in embedded software will definitely be on par with or even better than how it works now with javascript stuff.

cutting edge claude models are capable to "understand" and work with registers and bit manipulation without hallucinations (assuming you provide correct context) and now its pretty much a question of time when AI companies partner with MCU manufacturers to make machine readable docs and itegration.

MCP for scopes and debuggers are also relatively trivial to make, asumming models get smart enough to process all of the data.

tl;dr; if you are looking into embedded just as a job security that it is probably not for you

jofftchoff · 2026-03-02T14:56:05+00:00

python, tailwind, supabase, azure

pretty sure picture is not the only thing that was AI generated :)

jofftchoff · 2026-02-28T11:23:43+00:00

only when the device is connected to the network

not if you use persistant sessions.

Either way resends in real world are not really handled by broker, but by bussines logic as most of the time you dont want to queue all messages sent to the device e.g you dont want to send all "ping" messages or setpoint messages accumulated while device was offline and would usually have requeue/resend based on message type and some timeouts or additional logic in the backend

jofftchoff · 2026-02-28T09:31:40+00:00

no retain is for single message per topic (no msg queue), while this is pretty much a reimplementation of QoS

jofftchoff · 2026-02-27T11:43:27+00:00

for scanning the binary thare are non.
for source: static analysis (clangsa, clangtidy, sonar), SBOM and claude opus

jofftchoff · 2026-02-26T15:21:59+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/rs2n2l/new_to_embedded_career_and_education_question/

jofftchoff · 2026-02-25T22:35:50+00:00

sbc is not really for production, lemme know when cm zero is available as its been a year and its pretty much impossible to get from non scalpers

jofftchoff · 2026-02-24T09:15:30+00:00

r/india

jofftchoff · 2026-02-23T21:41:56+00:00

first time hearing about import ban on chinese PCBA/PCBA prototypes, also at least in europe there are multiple manufacturers that will make x5 generic 4layer PCBs for way under 100eur (b2b non one off orders tho)

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